After moving my blog to its new home I spent some time to figure out a way to improve search engine ranking of the new URL over the old URL. In the process I did some searches for term ‘rakasunivers’ on Google, hoping to find out places that are referring to my blog. And I found a pleasant surprise. Three • Read More »
Tags: Blogging, Sunday Leader, thesundayleader.lk
I just moved this blog to RaKasUniverse.info domain from a free blog at WordPress.com. When I moved the domain I also moved to own hosting. Reasons for this is not 100% clear even for me. I was a bit frustrated about not being able to install my own plug-ins, not being able to write java • Read More »
Tags: cPanel, Fantastico, Hosting, Import/Export, Install Wordpress, Move, Moving, Own Hosting, WordPress, WordPress.com
I captured this image with my mobile phone sometimes back (18-April-2010) when I was at Galle Face Green. I was just trying to capture the evening sky. I could not do a good job on it as the lighting was little low for my phone to handle and I was pointing the cam directly at • Read More »
Tags: Coulds, Galle Face, Galle Face Green, Photography, Sun, Sunset, Worshiping the Sun God
Well, couple of days ago I felt like moving my blog off the free WordPress.com hosting. I did not have a real need of it, but I just felt bit restricted by all the restrictions there. Not that I could not live with those restrictions, but my mind just hit some kind of a critical point at which it made • Read More »
Tags: Blog, Domain, Hosting, WordPress, Wordpress 3.0
Are the wonders of our universe are cosmic accident or the results of intelligent design? For centuries religion and science were bitter foes. Now science actively searches for our creator. Some physicists think he is hidden in the math. Neurologists think she might be in our brains. Computer coders believe God is one of them, • Read More »
Tags: Are we really alone, Creator, Discovery, Discovery Science, Discovery Science Channel, Documentary, galaxies, Is there a creator, meaning of life stuff, Morgan Freeman, Science, stars, Through The Wormhole, TV, Universe, What are we made of, What was there before the beginning, Wormhole, wormholes
This is a follow-up to my earlier post on Java Reflections. In the earlier post I just showed how to invoke methods of an object dynamically using reflection. Here I am going to talk about accessing attributes of another object using reflection, with a little twist. Just like my earlier post I’ll start this with • Read More »
Tags: access private fields, access private methods, java, Java Programming, Java Reflections, java.lang.Class, java.lang.reflect, java.lang.reflect.Field, private access specifier, private member access, Programming, Reflections, setAccessible
Here is an exercise for you! Write a java program that take two or more command line arguments. 1st argument is a class name. 2nd argument is a method name. Rest of the arguments are string values to be passed in to that method. Your program has to load the class specified in first argument • Read More »
Tags: java, Java Programming, java.lang.Class, java.lang.reflect, java.lang.reflect.Constructor, java.lang.reflect.Method, Programming, reflect, Reflection
Java API give a very simple set of classes to deal with zip files in its java.util.zip package. I am just going to show how to access the content of a zip file using these classes. Basically in java point of view a zip file is a collection of zip entries. you just select the • Read More »
Tags: java, java.util.zip, Zip, ZipEntry, ZipFile
Programming is my main hobby. I wrote my first computer program when I was 11 years old. Then I was using GW BBASIC. Since then I have learned QBASIC, Pascal, Visual Basic, Perl, Java, PLSQL, C++, PHP, C#, bit of Python and many other things over time. I screwed up my A/L for it but • Read More »
Tags: ASP, BASIC, C++, Computer Programming, Evil, GW BASIC, java, Multiple Inheritance, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL SQL, PLSQL, Pointer Arithmatics, Programming, Python Pointers, QBASIC, RegEx, Regular Expressions, Visual Basic